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iPod Turns 10 Years Old Today
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How time flies!
Mine still works just fine with the original battery.
A full charge now lasts for somewhat more than 2 hours.
Still good for a short hike.
K-H.
Mine still works just fine with the original battery.
A full charge now lasts for somewhat more than 2 hours.
Still good for a short hike.
K-H.
And it didn't take off until the second year, when Apple decided to open it up to Windows users (the first iPod was a Mac exclusive).
Really sad to see Apple not paying attention to one of the best products - Nano is pretty useless (compared to 5th gen), Touch didn't get any update, Classic is dead in Apple's eyes
Why would they? Sales are dropping. The new focus is iPhones and iPads.
More importantly, most of Apple's products have reached evolutionary stages. Based on your comment, you could say that they don't pay attention to the iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro anymore because their design changes are no longer revolutionary, but evolutionary.
There isn't much more you can do to the iPods (or their other products), until paradigms in user interactions change.
How is it useless ? My 6th gen plays music just fine. I use it 5 days a week at the gym, never missed a beat (litterally). It clips right to my gym clothing, anywhere I want it (so it's not in the way of muscle groups I'm training and it's solidly fixed for cardio) and it holds so many songs at even just 8 GB that I couldn't possibly do a full run through in a single week of 2 hour gym sessions if I wanted.
The 5th gen nano would have been an hassle to use at the gym, hence why I was using my iPhone back then.
Same is true for me too. It's what led me to consider Mac again after about a 10 year absence.
I like the classical click wheel. Would have been nice if they kept it on the nano. Happy birthday iPod. You really are a game changer. Before you, music players were bulky, and hard to use, today.... well they changed A LOT!!
Really sad to see Apple not paying attention to one of the best products - Nano is pretty useless (compared to 5th gen), Touch didn't get any update, Classic is dead in Apple's eyes
Technology moves on. The iPod lives on in the iPhone and iPad. Now that the iPhone is available on most carriers, fewer people need the iPod Touch (which evolved into a gaming machine).
for me it's a sad day to have a click wheel,
it was simply, the best human interface ever.
i still prefer scroll rather than swipe...
I agree. I have a square nano for working out. When u are running or walking on a treadmill, it's very hard to find a song on the the small screen swiping up and down and left to right... I still use a 2nd generation shuffle for biking. The tactile sense is much better. Just feel the grooves with your finger and press...
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Yeah the iPod touch is a gaming machine now. Who wants a crappy Nintendo DS when u can have tons of games for just a few bucks and not having to change cartridges... I see kids with iPods everywhere.
I wish the iPhone was that thin though.
Really sad to see Apple not paying attention to one of the best products - Nano is pretty useless (compared to 5th gen), Touch didn't get any update, Classic is dead in Apple's eyes
Tech moves forward, devices converge, etc.
Apple certainly paid attention to one of their best products. They turned it into the iPhone.
iPod sales have dropped for a reason. Not because of inattention. But because Apple superseded their own product. The iPhone flung the iPod into obsolescence. How many companies can claim that their current game-changer superseded their previous game-changer?
In other words: what can kill an Apple product? Another Apple product.
iPods still sell, though. However, take a look at iPhone sales figures at the end of the holiday quarter. You'll see the inevitable fate of the iPod down the road. The iPod ship is a slow sinker, though.
...because in 2001, all the other MP3 players had video? From 2011 looking back, yes, you may have a point...but in 2001, it was not as lame as it appears in the rear view mirror....
Funny, the three ifs there which takes you to the alternative universe where iPod was a failure.
When you sell 304 million of them, sales will drop as demand drops...it's not as if the decline in demand for an Apple iPod is being filled by another MP3 player. More and more younger folks are getting iPhones, but the demand for the Touch will likely continue...although at a lower level...
During a boom in an economy and for what the iPod could do back then? I don't think so.
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In terms of features its a step backwards. 5th gen was more than just music, video, bigger screen and some useful apps. Nano is no more than a touchscreen Shuffle, people who want more than a music player have no choice than to go with Touch.